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Bismart’s and Libelium’s smart system analyzes the environmental triggers of lung disease in Brussels

July 13th, 2017
- Libelium

Bismart and Libelium have worked on a project to analyze the environmental triggers of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) decompensation in order to be able to size the hospital emergency and hospital admission services as soon as possible before these possible environmental triggers appear.

Data collected by the sensors is analyzed on the Bismart platform where environmental triggers at monthly level are correlated with the monthly admissions in a small number of hospitals in Brussels.

The report shows the monthly behavior of different environmental variables in the city:

Snow days

Rain days and total precipitation

Hours of daylight

Relative humidity

Average temperature

COPD Triggers Monitor & Analysis on Bismart’s platform

With Azure Machine Learning, which correlates the information of discharges with the environmental variables, certain thresholds that can lead to an increase of the admissions by COPD can be determined such as temperature below 10º or relative humidity greater than 78%. At the same time, there is a correlation between admissions information and environmental variables at monthly level.

At this time, there are several next steps under development. One of them is the acquisition of the environmental variables in real time thanks to the information provided by sensors. Another is the analysis of these variables in real time to have an Operational Control Panel to help us determine possible admissions for COPD in hospitals with the aim of improving patient care.